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HISTORICAL BACKGROUND: <br />Information from Bridget Bacon, Museum Coordinator <br />Felix Tomeo built the structure known as the Tomeo House with the help of his older brothers, <br />Nick and Mike, circa 1904. The house originally had the address of 520 Second St. under <br />Louisville's old address system that changed about 1939. It was later known as 1013 (or <br />sometimes 1011 or 1009) Main Street. <br />This building is typical of coal miners' houses built in Louisville at the turn of the last century. <br />Early wood frame houses were generally one story with two or three rooms and simple exterior <br />detailing. The house has never had running water or a bathroom. <br />In 1924, the Rossi family (consisting of Grace DiGiacomo Rossi and her six children) moved <br />into the Tomeo house and continued to rent the house from the Tomeo family until 1941. <br />Dominic Tomeo, son of Felix and Michelina, lived briefly in the Tomeo House after the Rossi <br />family moved to Denver, at which point Frank and Rose Kuretich rented the house with their two <br />children until 1943. <br />Dominic Tomeo then used the building for storage space until his death in 1983, when the City <br />of Louisville purchased Lots 1-4, including the Tomeo House and Jacoe Store, for the purpose <br />of housing a local history museum. The Tomeo House (then known as the Miner's House) <br />opened as a museum on September 1, 1986. During renovation in the 1980s, electrical outlets, <br />heating, and entrance steps and railings were added to the house. <br />The Tomeo House was recognized as a Louisville Historic Landmark in 2005 (Resolution No. <br />41, Series 2005). An alteration certificate was approved in 2014 to install a new cellar door and <br />entry on the south side of the Tomeo House. <br />a ROUNn num. SKETCH c <br />IT fi.11 <br />1 <br />14 <br />FRONT <br />Boulder County Assessor records, 1948 <br />8 <br />